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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 172, NO. 13 | Monday January 31, 2011
InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 6 ·Sudoku 8 · Classifieds 10 · Crossword 12 · Sports
Desert nightmare: USC loses its
fifth conference game at Arizona.
PAGE 12
By hannah madans
Daily Trojan
Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence, commonly know as
SETI, recently agreed to partner with
USC to “pursue the study of the living
universe.”
The SETI Institute is a non-profit
organization that performs research
and has a center for education and
public outreach.
The collaboration will be effec-tive
immediately. As a result, USC
will gain access to the Institute to
embark on joint projects. According
to Randolph Hall, Vice President of
Research, involvement is expect-ed
from physics, astronomy, biology,
electrical engineering, computer sci-ence,
cinema and the Keck School of
Medicine.
“USC and the SETI Institute have
common interests in understanding
life in all its forms, as well as
communicating with students and
the public on exciting scientific
topics,” Hall wrote in an e-mail.
“We are looking forward to starting
joint research programs, education
and internship opportunities for
students, and creation of multimedia
for science education.”
The idea of a collaboration
emerged three months ago when
Dr. David Agus, the director of the
USC Center for Applied Molecular
Medicine and the USC Westside
Prostate Cancer Center, met with Jill
Tarter, the Director of the Center for
SETI Research at the SETI Institute
in Mountain View, Calif. at a confer-ence.
There, they talked about a pos-sible
collaboration between USC and
SETI.
Although the exact details of the
USC to partner with SETI
for projects and research
Collaboration will offer new
classes, summer internships
and search for intelligent life.
| see seti, page 2 |
By rachel bracker
Daily Trojan
Career Fest kicks off today, and
seniors preparing their resumes
and interview skills should know
that job prospects for graduates
with bachelor degrees should im-prove
this year.
According to a survey from the
National Association of Colleges
and Employers, employers expect
to hire about 13.5 percent more
students this year than in 2010
overall and 22.5 percent more in
the western region of the country.
“We’ve had an increase in our
fall on-campus recruiting this
year,” said Lori Shreve Blake,
director of Alumni and Student
Career Services at the Career
Planning and Placement Center.
“For our graduates this year, we
are characterizing the job market
for recent graduates as good.
Last year, we characterized the
market as fair, but the economy
is improving for us and there are
jobs out there.”
Angie Sabido-Wood, director of
Employer Relations and Research
for CPPC, also said there seemed
to be more recruiters with a larg-er
number of positions to fill, com-pared
to last year.
“The job offers that our advisers
are seeing that students are
coming in with are better as well,”
Wood said. “We’re seeing signing
bonuses, which we haven’t seen in
a while. Last year things slumped
a little and things are starting to
look better.”
Wood also said USC didn’t ex-perience
as much of a recruiting
drop as other campuses in the
area.
“I don’t think we ever saw
the drop in numbers [that they
did],” she said. “We were still
having successful career fairs
but they weren’t experiencing as
many recruiters coming to their
CPPC says job market is looking up
Survey finds employers will
hire about 13.5 percent more
students this year than in 2010.
| see carer, page 2 |
Alex Dealy | Daily Trojan
Decisions · Kathryn Jacobsen, a junior majoring in political science,
looks at some materials at the Career Planning and Placement Center.
By Beroze Dubash
Daily Trojan
The USC student body reflects
a national trend of college stu-dents
using mobile devices dai-ly
to access the Internet, and
this has compelled Information
Technology Services to improve
its wireless coverage, according
to Kevin Durkin, director of com-munication
and marketing for
Information Technology Services.
The Educause Center for Applied
Research, which provides research
and analysis to universities to help
them make better decisions on
technology, recently released a re-port
that found that during the last
two years, the percentage of college
students who use their phones to
obtain daily access to the Internet
has grown significantly.
Durkin said the increased use of
mobile devices to access the USC
wireless network has led to an in-crease
in bandwidth demand on
the network.
“It’s also due to the fact that
students now use devices that
take up much more bandwidth,”
Durkin said. “Mobile devices that
are used to download music, or up-load
pictures or videos to social
networking sites take up a lot of
bandwidth.”
Bandwidth is the amount of data
that can be transferred in a given
period of time. The larger the num-ber
of people who are accessing the
Internet to download items or play
movies, the slower the bandwidth.
The large amount of smart
phone technology and the in-creased
demand for bandwidth led
ITS to launch its wireless network
upgrade initiative last August to
increase the speed, capacity and
area covered by the USC network.
“The goal of the initiative is
to provide pervasive wireless
coverage in the University Park
and Health Sciences campuses,”
Durkin said.
The high amount of network
traffic has left some students with
complaints about USC’s wireless
network.
“I definitely think that the USC
network needs to improve. I don’t
even get good signal in my apart-ment,”
said Denise Rick, an unde-clared
sophomore.
Each year, when ITS conducts
its annual customer service survey,
wireless availability is always a top
concern, Durkin said.
The initial phase to upgrade
its wireless network, which will
be completed in the next several
weeks, includes upgrading wireless
connectivity in all academic build-ings
on both campuses to have the
greatest impact on students
“The first phase of the project
Mobile usage creates higher demand for bandwidth
ITS is working to upgrade
wireless availability on all
academic buildings at USC.
| see Wireless, page 2 |
“We are looking
forward to starting
joint research
programs, education
and internship
opportunities for
students.”
· · ·
Randolph Hall
Vice President
Research
Alex Dealy | Daily Trojan
Technology · Phil Jones, a sophomore majoring in communications, uses his phone and iPod to access the
Internet. Information Technology Services says wireless availability is a top concern on both USC campuses.
“I definitely think that
the USC network needs
to improve. I don’t
even get good signal in
my apartment.”
· · ·
denise rick
Sophomore
Undeclared
People’s Summit: Community leaders and
organizations come together in wake of local elections.
ONLINE

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 172, NO. 13 | Monday January 31, 2011
InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 6 ·Sudoku 8 · Classifieds 10 · Crossword 12 · Sports
Desert nightmare: USC loses its
fifth conference game at Arizona.
PAGE 12
By hannah madans
Daily Trojan
Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence, commonly know as
SETI, recently agreed to partner with
USC to “pursue the study of the living
universe.”
The SETI Institute is a non-profit
organization that performs research
and has a center for education and
public outreach.
The collaboration will be effec-tive
immediately. As a result, USC
will gain access to the Institute to
embark on joint projects. According
to Randolph Hall, Vice President of
Research, involvement is expect-ed
from physics, astronomy, biology,
electrical engineering, computer sci-ence,
cinema and the Keck School of
Medicine.
“USC and the SETI Institute have
common interests in understanding
life in all its forms, as well as
communicating with students and
the public on exciting scientific
topics,” Hall wrote in an e-mail.
“We are looking forward to starting
joint research programs, education
and internship opportunities for
students, and creation of multimedia
for science education.”
The idea of a collaboration
emerged three months ago when
Dr. David Agus, the director of the
USC Center for Applied Molecular
Medicine and the USC Westside
Prostate Cancer Center, met with Jill
Tarter, the Director of the Center for
SETI Research at the SETI Institute
in Mountain View, Calif. at a confer-ence.
There, they talked about a pos-sible
collaboration between USC and
SETI.
Although the exact details of the
USC to partner with SETI
for projects and research
Collaboration will offer new
classes, summer internships
and search for intelligent life.
| see seti, page 2 |
By rachel bracker
Daily Trojan
Career Fest kicks off today, and
seniors preparing their resumes
and interview skills should know
that job prospects for graduates
with bachelor degrees should im-prove
this year.
According to a survey from the
National Association of Colleges
and Employers, employers expect
to hire about 13.5 percent more
students this year than in 2010
overall and 22.5 percent more in
the western region of the country.
“We’ve had an increase in our
fall on-campus recruiting this
year,” said Lori Shreve Blake,
director of Alumni and Student
Career Services at the Career
Planning and Placement Center.
“For our graduates this year, we
are characterizing the job market
for recent graduates as good.
Last year, we characterized the
market as fair, but the economy
is improving for us and there are
jobs out there.”
Angie Sabido-Wood, director of
Employer Relations and Research
for CPPC, also said there seemed
to be more recruiters with a larg-er
number of positions to fill, com-pared
to last year.
“The job offers that our advisers
are seeing that students are
coming in with are better as well,”
Wood said. “We’re seeing signing
bonuses, which we haven’t seen in
a while. Last year things slumped
a little and things are starting to
look better.”
Wood also said USC didn’t ex-perience
as much of a recruiting
drop as other campuses in the
area.
“I don’t think we ever saw
the drop in numbers [that they
did],” she said. “We were still
having successful career fairs
but they weren’t experiencing as
many recruiters coming to their
CPPC says job market is looking up
Survey finds employers will
hire about 13.5 percent more
students this year than in 2010.
| see carer, page 2 |
Alex Dealy | Daily Trojan
Decisions · Kathryn Jacobsen, a junior majoring in political science,
looks at some materials at the Career Planning and Placement Center.
By Beroze Dubash
Daily Trojan
The USC student body reflects
a national trend of college stu-dents
using mobile devices dai-ly
to access the Internet, and
this has compelled Information
Technology Services to improve
its wireless coverage, according
to Kevin Durkin, director of com-munication
and marketing for
Information Technology Services.
The Educause Center for Applied
Research, which provides research
and analysis to universities to help
them make better decisions on
technology, recently released a re-port
that found that during the last
two years, the percentage of college
students who use their phones to
obtain daily access to the Internet
has grown significantly.
Durkin said the increased use of
mobile devices to access the USC
wireless network has led to an in-crease
in bandwidth demand on
the network.
“It’s also due to the fact that
students now use devices that
take up much more bandwidth,”
Durkin said. “Mobile devices that
are used to download music, or up-load
pictures or videos to social
networking sites take up a lot of
bandwidth.”
Bandwidth is the amount of data
that can be transferred in a given
period of time. The larger the num-ber
of people who are accessing the
Internet to download items or play
movies, the slower the bandwidth.
The large amount of smart
phone technology and the in-creased
demand for bandwidth led
ITS to launch its wireless network
upgrade initiative last August to
increase the speed, capacity and
area covered by the USC network.
“The goal of the initiative is
to provide pervasive wireless
coverage in the University Park
and Health Sciences campuses,”
Durkin said.
The high amount of network
traffic has left some students with
complaints about USC’s wireless
network.
“I definitely think that the USC
network needs to improve. I don’t
even get good signal in my apart-ment,”
said Denise Rick, an unde-clared
sophomore.
Each year, when ITS conducts
its annual customer service survey,
wireless availability is always a top
concern, Durkin said.
The initial phase to upgrade
its wireless network, which will
be completed in the next several
weeks, includes upgrading wireless
connectivity in all academic build-ings
on both campuses to have the
greatest impact on students
“The first phase of the project
Mobile usage creates higher demand for bandwidth
ITS is working to upgrade
wireless availability on all
academic buildings at USC.
| see Wireless, page 2 |
“We are looking
forward to starting
joint research
programs, education
and internship
opportunities for
students.”
· · ·
Randolph Hall
Vice President
Research
Alex Dealy | Daily Trojan
Technology · Phil Jones, a sophomore majoring in communications, uses his phone and iPod to access the
Internet. Information Technology Services says wireless availability is a top concern on both USC campuses.
“I definitely think that
the USC network needs
to improve. I don’t
even get good signal in
my apartment.”
· · ·
denise rick
Sophomore
Undeclared
People’s Summit: Community leaders and
organizations come together in wake of local elections.
ONLINE